SAP NWDS (NetWeaver Developer Studio) is only supported on Windows 10 and only on a SAP JVM -- see also SAP Note 2546316
as NWDS is actually eclipse neon with some additional SAP plugins, I wondered why.
My requirement is to run it on a Windows Server 2008 R2, and soon I may need to run NWDS on a recent Mac Book Pro.
Current Behaviour
Apparently the NWDS is checking somewhere for the OS flavor and the JVM manufacturer.
What I achieved so far
I run it on a SAP JVM using -vm Parameter in eclipse.ini
I added -Dos.name=Windows 10 and -Dos.version=10.0 params, and some of the SAP plugins loaded -- but not all!
In the JCo plugin folder, I tried replacing the binary files (DLL and one other file) by corresponding OS versions I got from the SAP market place)
Questions
Well, how to get NWDS 7.5 to run on Win Server (and later, on a Mac)
Partial achievement would be to get Eclipse to spit out more information on WHY/WHICH plugins didn't get loaded --- found no information (maybe I'm too dumb for that)
UPDATE 20.08.2018
Answering question 2: Eclipse Runtime Options => options eclipse.log.*
and found the logs in the configuration subfolder of installation folder.
=> error is definitely not being able to load the native part of the JCo Plugin:
org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Could not resolve module: com.sap.jco3 [463]
Unresolved requirement: Require-Capability: osgi.native; native.paths:List="sapjco3.dll"; filter:="(&(osgi.native.osname~=win32)(osgi.native.processor~=x86_64))"
Well,
the answer (at least in resp. to Win Server 2008 R2) is
-vm parameter in your eclipse.ini-clean option in your eclipse.ini after switching to SAP jvm, as this will rebuild the plugin list.The answer to the partial (logging) question is already in an update in the original question, but nevertheless:
Eclipse Runtime Options => Use options eclipse.log.*
and find the logs in the configuration subfolder of installation folder.